There’s often no in any way complete source code after 25 years.

Media degrade, get forgotten hell knows where, get occasionally destroyed.

There’s no such thing as untrackable.

The feeling of being a completely honest and lawful citizen was really nice at some point, buying games in Steam, GOG or just bookstores, too bad it was mostly gaslighting and they were not going to be honest with us.

Impostors, in other words.

No, it’s not. But the US is closer to it than some Americans think.

I agree, but yours are real oligarchs, while those I’m talking about are a relatively new thing for you.

Russian-style ones are just blokes from one and the same corporation who chose they want to be celebrities. A façade. They used oligarchy as a scapegoat in the 90s, to avoid lustration while it still could be done.

Is that your reading comprehension or my bad English?

As someone from fucking Russia, people with biggest income in your country are usually first businessmen, second - something else, while in Russia those would be cockroaches from MFA, PA and other thieves, plus a few oligarchs who at some point were among those cockroaches.

So it may not be as bad yet, but frankly yes, you are giving out vibes of going in the same direction.

Taxes are theft the specific way they are designed in most countries.

Another example of theft is a hired administrator administrating by the criterion of their own pay.

I mean, it is understandable how this works - their pay is a counterweight to the incentive to “mismanage” the company if someone else pays a fitting price. The issue here is that these two incentives do not completely neutralize each other, in some dimension their components add up.

Why I had to say that taxes are still theft - because a CEO is equivalent to a state official in this issue. It’s the same problem.

Political ideologies divide these problems, because political ideologies are like hedge funds, they diversify investments, so that every political ideology could be usable in every landscape for every policy. They are the opposite of consistent, by design.